6-7 Flashcards
Motor speech disorders include
Apraxia & dysarthria
Types of apraxia of speech
Dyspraxia
Aphemia
Peripheral motor aphasia
Apraxic Dysarthria
To act or move
Praxis
A mean -
Without
Apraxia means: to not _____ per to not ___
To not act or to not move
Apraxia means lack of movement or action for speech production
Various kinds of apraxia
Inability to move eyes, limbs, and structures
An acquired disorder of speech originating from an inability to create and sequence motor plans for speech
Apraxia of speech
Apraxia of speech May co-occur with dysarthria. True or false
True
Apraxia of speech Usually co-occurs with some kind of aphasia . True or false
True
Common that a person has apraxia of speech without some language impairments. Tue or false
False. Rare that a person has apraxia of speech without some language impairments
Apraxia of speech; Rooted in an inability to ______the neural impulses necessary to create appropriate motor movements for speech
Rooted in an inability to create and sequence (program) the neural impulses necessary to create appropriate motor movements for speech
Apraxia of speech Construction of appropriate motor plans for movements of the articulators to produce non-speech actions are unaffected.
Not a single structure in the CNS, but a network of structures that all contribute to the function of putting together appropriate motor plans for speech.
Certain left hemisphere structures play a large role
For apraxia of speech
- Broca’s area and supplementary motor cortex
2.Primary motor cortex, basal ganglia, and cerebellum
Characteristics of Apraxia of Speech
Effortful speech
Aware of speech errors
Self-repairs
Struggle and frustration
Characteristics of Apraxia of Speech Cont.
Limited prosody
Slowed rate- to avoid errors
Inconsistent errors- Islands of intact speech
Visible, auditory groping of the tongue, lips, and mandible
Resonance, respiration coordination, and phonation left relatively intact
Articulation errors Usually occur on the ____ phoneme
Usually occur on the first phoneme
The more ___ the word, the more likely an error will occur
Complex
Articulation errors
Consonant clusters of /l/ and /s/
Common articulation errors in apraxia of speech
Usually occur on the first phoneme
The more complex the word, the more likely an error will occur
Consonant clusters of /l/ and /s/
Might produce different error patterns on the same word
Phoneme substitutions and distortions
Articulation errors cont.
Perseverative substitutions
Anticipatory substitutions
Phoneme additions
Phoneme prolongations
Voicing errors
Damage to the left hemisphere at or around —________
Inferior posterior frontal lobe
Etiologies of apraxia of speech
Any process or event that damages the left inferior-posterior frontal lobe
Etiologies of apraxia of speech
Any process or event that damages the left inferior-posterior frontal lobe
Usually stroke involving occlusion of the left middle cerebral artery
Generalized head trauma
Focal head trauma- surgical removal of tumor or aneurysm near Broca’s area
A neurodegenerative condition in which patients display a slow onset of apraxia of speech that gains in severity over time as a result of continued atrophy of the lateral premotor cortex and the supplementary motor area
Primary progressive apraxia of speech
Evolves into a condition of degeneration of
-The premotor cortex, prefrontal cortex, primary
-Motor cortex, basal ganglia, midbrain, and corpus callosum
Primary progressive apraxia of speech
Inability to program and carry out any volitional movements of the tongue, lips, pharynx, or larynx on command
Buccofacial Oral Apraxia
A.K.A. noverbal apraxia or oral apraxia
May be able to move articulators in a natural context, though not on command
Oral apraxia
Volitional speech can be affected, with more formulaic and automatic utterances left unimpaired
Oral apraxia
Inability to program motor movements for the use of tools and the pantomiming of gestures despite possessing the knowledge of how the object is used and its function
Ideomotor apraxia
May be able to explain the purpose and how to use a hairbrush, but cannot complete the task on command (though can complete the task in a natural context)
Ideonotor apraxia
Inability to:
Conceptualize a task
Formulate motor plans required for the task
Hold the idea of the task long enough to accomplish the task successfully
Ideational apraxia
May be able to perform individual components of a task, but cannot perform the series of actions sequentially to accomplish the entire act
Raise a hairbrush to their head, but unable to accomplish the remaining actions necessary
Cannot perform the task volitionally or automatically
Ideational apraxia
Concomitant disorders of apraxia of screech
Hemiplegia or hemiparesis
Hyperflexia
Dysarthria
Buccofacial oral apraxia/ideomotor apraxia
Nonfluent aphasia
Contralateral to the lesion
Usually affects written language by weakening dominant writing hand, while the apraxia of speech affects verbal output of language
Hemiplegia or hemiparesis
Extrapyramidal impulses of reflex regulation unable to reach the brainstem and spinal cord
Damage to the upper motor neurons with transmit extrapyramidal impulses of reflex regulation to the brain stem and spinal cord.
Hyperflexia
Articulation errors occur more often on longer/complex words
Errors are varied and inconsistent
More difficulty producing volitional than reflexive automatic utterances
Buccofacial-oral apraxia more likely
Normal muscle strength, muscle tone, and appropriate ROM
Apraxia
Articulation errors occur on all words in all utterances
Errors are consistent and predictable
Buccofacial-oral apraxia less likely
Impaired oral/ velopharyngeal muscle strength, abnormal muscle tone, and limited ROM
Dysarthria
The presence of motor speech disorders often implies a problem with the nervous system, which may validate a medical-neurological disease.
Components of evaluation
Identification of confirmatory signs to support hypothesized motor speech diagnosis
Instrumental measures
Administration of a formal test of apraxia of speech, dysarthria, and/or speech intelligibility
Examination of the patient’s individual oral structures and articulators, and observation of nonspeech functions of these structures
Eval
Tests patient’s maximum limit of ability by comparing patient’s greatest effort on a task with the known average performance rate of unimpaired individuals
Maximum performance task
Alternating motion rates (AMRs)
Simple repetitive motor tasks used to test speed and regularity
Diadochokinetic rates (DDKs)
Rapid repetition of more than one syllable at a time to test ability to rapidly move articulators successfully and precisely
Sequential motion rates (SMRs)
Types. Of maximum performance tasks
Diadochokinetic rates (DDKs)
Sequential motion rates (SMRs)
Patient produces continuous speech for at least 5 minutes.
-See if person becomes fatigued
-See how fatigue affects speech
Speech stress test